Nicola Valley Institute of Technology is one of Canada’s first post-secondary facilities shared by a native and non-native institute, designed to reflect the cultural characteristics of the aboriginal students, and provide state of the art learning spaces required by University College of the Cariboo. The program includes classrooms, faculty offices, social spaces, labs, bookstore, a cafeteria, and a library. Internal “siting” of functional spaces has been with the intention of eliminating any sense of hierarchy.